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The Parcae project revolutionized electronic eavesdropping Ivan Amato NRO In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Jan. 2025 -
There is also additional information on how this works to protect governments from nation state eavesdropping on the iOS platform.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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Shortly after the burglary, around 5:41 a.m., investigators with East Haven police set up surveillance to execute a search warrant at 125 Pleasant St. in New Britain.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2025
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Much of the evidence outlined in the FBI complaint is from cellphone data, surveillance video and license-plate readers that allegedly place the defendants in the vicinity of the burglaries.—
Curt Anderson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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This allows drones and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to enter electromagnetic warfare (EW) environments that are being occupied by multiple forces.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Between 1947 and 1950, American reconnaissance planes thoroughly photographed the area for cartographic purposes.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Feb. 2025
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This is supported by other recent Hubble observations that imaged 100 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Released as a single on February 14, the song puts into words the sort of observations that can come to someone looking through the windshield on a drive through the South.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Wiretapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiretapping. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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